Reviews:

• SFF World.com on John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades.
• Blogcritics on Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End.
• Blogcritics on Julie E. Czerneda's Survival.
• CA Reviews on James Rollins's Black Order.

An Interview:

• Paul Goat Allen talked to David Louis Edelman for Barnes & Noble's in-house magazine.

Locus lists the new books they saw last week, including When Darkness Falls by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory, Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson and The Ruins by Scott Smith.

Kevin Ahern declares "The Future Is Now" at SciFi Dimensions.

Justine Larbalestier really likes Julie Phillips' new biography James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon.

Charles Stross ponders Genre Neuroses.

Sci Fi Wire looks at Steven Barnes's new novel Great Sky Woman.

The Slush God attended that now-fabled benefit reading this week, and was treated to the dulcet tones of J.K. Rowling, Stephen King and John Irving. He then reported on it for our benefit.

The best sentence I've read on a blog today: "It seems a drunk Apache is dismantling the miniature stone castle I have in the front yard."

Katherine Kerr takes on some common grammar problems at DeepGenre.

MemeTherapy asked a bunch of people which technological-ethical issues worry them the most.

MemeTherapy also asked a (different) bunch of people which place they'd most like to see be destroyed by a SFnal disaster.

WriteFantastic rounds up the various UK newspaper obituaries for David Gemmell, and also post recollections of Gemmell by someone who didn't sign the post.